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Aftermath of fatal Turkish mine blast

Yusuf Yerkel, a prime ministerial aide (left), appearing to kick a person who is being wrestled to the ground by two police officers during protests over the fatal mine blast near Soma, Turkey. Mr Yerkel confirmed to the BBC's Turkish Service that he is the individual pictured in the photograph. Photograph: Depo Photos/EPA

A makeshift grave marker for late miner Ibrahim Duman, a victim of the coal mine blast. Photograph: Tolga Bozoglu/EPA

The scene at a cemetery during some of the funerals for mine victims near Soma, Manisa province, Turkey. Photograph: Tolga Bozoglu/EPA

Riot police run away from an exploding fire bomb thrown by protesters as they demonstrate in Ankara, Turkey, over the mass death of miners after a coal mine explosion in Soma. Photograph: Reuters

A relative of a trapped miner at the mine site in Soma. Photograph: Ahmet Sik/Getty Images

Full clothes baskets belonging to trapped miners hang in the empty changing rooms at the mine. Photograph: Ahmet Sik/Getty Images

Rescue workers carry the body of a miner from the site. Photograph: Ahmet Sik/Getty Images

An injured miner is carried to an ambulance after being rescued from the coal mine he was trapped in at Soma, a district in Turkey's western province of Manisa. Photograph: Yasin Akgul/Depo Photos/Reuters

Tear gas is used against protesters. Photograph: Reuters

Riot police use water cannon in Istanbul to disperse protesters during a demonstration in reaction to the deaths in the Soma mine blast. Photograph: Erdem Sahin/EPA

Riot police use water cannon in central Istanbul to disperse protesters during a demonstration blaming the ruling AK Party (AKP) government for the mining disaster in western Turkey. Photograph: Yagiz Karahan/Reuters